02-02-2024, 05:00 PM
(01-27-2024, 01:16 AM)Jmorfish Wrote: Couple buddies and I were looking for 'safest' ice to try dipping a line..from personal observation, and other recent reports, we decided da Berry would be our best bet..rain to start our drive, then snow on the way there, and fog/low clouds made for a somewhat white knuckle drive experience...my one buddy's truck, he had enough fun driving when he couldn't see any more along the final cut in road to the marina..I drove the final 5 or 6 miles in, and it definitely was white out conditions, but we were fine..just 1 other vehicle when we arrived, and we watched them access the ice, 1 of them with a snowmobile, so we felt pretty sure the ice was ok...I still used my ice probe, we safely walked on top of about 1.5' of frozen slush, with my probe punching thru just a few times to the solid ice, which turned out to be about 5 to 6"...lite snow falling all while there, mild temp, no wind, great conditions..I should have known better, but my first test hole was just 25', and we 'saw' fish, so set 2 tents in that area..should have gone out deeper right away, but we stayed, had some lite taps, finally I got a nicer 18" releaser, slow, slow, few little maybe taps, fish often showing on screens, Jaw Jacker goes off..fish on..fish off..just enough to make me stay..finally our 'young gun' left and found 45' water, he soon iced 2 and lost 2 or 3 others..so it was just ok, not great, but I/we
should have gone deeper at the start..maybe next time..by 1100 there were about 10 other groups out, and saw a sno dog heading across the bay..Guluk..be careful..
Hi Joe, so to clarify there was 18 inches of slush?